Man, how I miss those days. The writers once excelled at this kind of character driven standalone episodes.
Yeah. It's funny. Some of the best episodes were standalones. It's not a difficult formula, either. I'm not sure why they're having so much difficulty following it.
Even if it is not a pregnant Amelia, there are just too many ways that the return of the character can go terribly wrong. I even speculate that Sam might be forced to sacrifice Amelia in order to complete the trials; I am not sure if the current set of writers would see any problems with such a turn in the story. Overall, I can think of no scenario where she returns that I would even remotely appreciate.
I keep cycling through potential horror stories. I should stop, because it's making me paranoid. Every time someone says 'normal life' my brain goes 'Pregnancy, dead girlfriend, soap opera angst, childish fights with Dean, love triangles, betrayal - BOOM!' :)
Yeah, it's kind ironic, isn't it? I mean, on the one hand the writers frequently look back to S1 for characterisation - like Dean's 'no chick flick moments' from the Pilot - but on the other hand they cannot even remember the most basic character moments from S1, like his convinction in Shadow that there will always be something to hunt. /sigh
It's weird. I thought TV shows had mechanisms in place to preserve continuity and characterisation. Books, editing, writers' room discussions. Not that any system is foolproof, but this is getting out of hand. It's not hard to grasp that the characters have developed over the years, and some of their attitudes have shifted while others have remained the same.
I don't know if you've seen the latest one yet, but oh the continuity issues.
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Yeah. It's funny. Some of the best episodes were standalones. It's not a difficult formula, either. I'm not sure why they're having so much difficulty following it.
Even if it is not a pregnant Amelia, there are just too many ways that the return of the character can go terribly wrong. I even speculate that Sam might be forced to sacrifice Amelia in order to complete the trials; I am not sure if the current set of writers would see any problems with such a turn in the story. Overall, I can think of no scenario where she returns that I would even remotely appreciate.
I keep cycling through potential horror stories. I should stop, because it's making me paranoid. Every time someone says 'normal life' my brain goes 'Pregnancy, dead girlfriend, soap opera angst, childish fights with Dean, love triangles, betrayal - BOOM!' :)
Yeah, it's kind ironic, isn't it? I mean, on the one hand the writers frequently look back to S1 for characterisation - like Dean's 'no chick flick moments' from the Pilot - but on the other hand they cannot even remember the most basic character moments from S1, like his convinction in Shadow that there will always be something to hunt. /sigh
It's weird. I thought TV shows had mechanisms in place to preserve continuity and characterisation. Books, editing, writers' room discussions. Not that any system is foolproof, but this is getting out of hand. It's not hard to grasp that the characters have developed over the years, and some of their attitudes have shifted while others have remained the same.
I don't know if you've seen the latest one yet, but oh the continuity issues.